I’ve been on a heavy boogaloo kick these past three years – it’s a mix of Motown and Latin that was big in NYC (came out of Spanish Harlem and the South Bronx) in the late 1960s. So there’s some of that, a good amount of jazz, some Afro-Caribbean and New Orleans, a little cumbia.
This year’s collection skews instrumental, with some ambient and some less classifiable, a few vocals here and there, mostly I look for sounds that feel distinct / right, and there are really just a ton of sounds put together here.
This year’s summer playlist is the punkiest, danciest collection of music I’ve collected. Can you listen to punk while you're grilling burgers on the weber? Shit yes you can.
Sixty-eight songs, three and a half hours, artists from 17 countries and five continents are represented, mostly U.S. with a solid squad of Australians in there.
WINTER 2025 is an eight and a half hour long collection of 154 songs by 143 artists spanning 26 countries (mostly the U.S., U.K. and Germany but also Egypt, Lithuania and Peru) and who knows how many genres. Gonna be honest, it's mostly instrumental and experimental with some ambient in there too.
Here's my summer 2024 playlist, a collection of boogaloo and rock and dance, good background music for your summer endeavors, with lots of artists you haven't heard of that are worth exploring.
I put together this roster of wintry music to help your way in the dark months. This year's collection – 170 songs and 8.5 hours long – is mostly instrumental, with more ambient than I've included in the past, along with other breeds of lo-fi, minimalist and experimental songs.
This summer’s music is a collection of boogaloo and salsa from NYC’s 1960s & 70s scene, some soul, a little rock, a bit of the dancey stuff; collected from artists from 18 countries representing every livable continent.
This year's music is an almost entirely instrumental mix of electronica and ambient, it definitely gets weird, my favorite track title is "Ah Shit, My Heart Is Full," and it's the product of the most productive music-listening year of my life.
This one's more instrumental than ever (80%), decently international (9 countries represented in the first 11 songs) and is full of electronic / ambient / piano-y songs to score this dark season.
This one's a three-hour-long collection of funk, rock, a little electronic and hip-hop, good for background music on a grill day or something else like that.
This year's is a collection of minor-chord slow-beat songs (electronic, pop and hip-hop) from 140+ artists across 20+ countries, good for playing in the background while you wait for it to get warm enough to go outside.
95 songs from 91 bands from 18 countries, it's a mix of rock and afrobeat and soul and instrumentals with a little rocksteady and a Sade/Sade-like chunk and a cover of a Neutral Milk Hotel song I love way too much.
A ten-hour long collection of dusty background music tuned to the cold months. This year on it there are 137 bands from 22 countries, some new some old.
A new winter's upon us. I know what you're thinking: It's getting dark early and I don't have any music that reflects my dark, dark mood. Look no further!
Here's my summer 2017 playlist, it's full of pep and haw. 85 songs, a few throwbacks and a lot of variation. Some french pop, some hip-hop, some four-chord rock 'n' roll.
